Media Review: Books: A Practical Guide to Federal Special Education Law: Understanding and Implementing PL 94–142

1982 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 548-548
Author(s):  
M.C. Martinson
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Special Education Law ◽  
Education Law ◽  
Practical Guide ◽  
Media Review

A Review of Special Education Law

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Hurwitz
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Special Education Law ◽  
Education Law

Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation: Implementing Special-Education Reform

1977 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Weatherley ◽  
Michael Lipsky
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
Special Education Law ◽  
Education Law ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Individual School

Recent state and federal legislation holds the promise of sweeping reform in special-education practices. In this article, Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky examine the implementation of Chapter 766, the dramatically innovative state special-education law in Massachusetts. They show how the necessary coping mechanisms that individual school personnel use to manage the demands of their jobs may, in the aggregate, constrain and distort the implementation of special-education reform. Their findings have serious implications for those seeking to introduce policy innovations in service bureaucracies of all kinds where the deliverers of service exercise substantial discretion in setting their work priorities.

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